As the projected release of Sea of Thieves’s latest major content update, Forsaken Shores, creeps ever closer, Executive Producer Joe Neate has taken the time to post a quick progress update on the game’s official site. According to the post, the team at Rare is “nearing the end of [its] polishing and bug fixing phase,” and a near-final build of the update will be going out to Pioneers over the weekend for some final pre-launch testing.

Neate acknowledges that the game’s “last couple of updates have seen issues introduced into the build . . . or have required emergency maintenance immediately following release,” but with Forsaken Shores, he says, “it’s [the dev team’s] priority to make sure this doesn’t happen again.” In light of that, the update warns that “there is a chance that Forsaken Shores may not release on the 19th September as planned,” but in the event that the release is held back for some extra last-minute polishing, the team doesn’t expect the delay to be “longer than a few days.”

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